With a lot good music being launched on a regular basis, it may be onerous to find out what to hearken to first. Each week, Pitchfork affords a run-down of great new releases out there on streaming providers. This week’s batch consists of new tasks from Sprints; Khadija Al Hanafi; Pile; Luis R Conriquez; Ñengo Circulation; Park Jiha, Oliver Coates & Agnes Obel; and Johnny Cinco. Subscribe to Pitchfork’s New Music Friday e-newsletter to get our suggestions in your inbox each week. (All releases featured listed here are independently chosen by our editors. If you purchase one thing by our affiliate hyperlinks, nonetheless, Pitchfork earns an affiliate fee.)

Sprints: Letter to Self [City Slang]

Sprints thrash by garage-punk riffs and mantras of social dread on their debut album, Letter to Self. Led by Karla Chubb and dealing with Gilla Band’s Daniel Fox, the Dublin four-piece attracts inspiration from Savages, Bauhaus, and LCD Soundsystem, degrading nervous hooks with distortion and sludge however by no means shedding sight of the dancefloor.

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Khadija Al Hanafi: Slime Patrol 2 [Fada]